Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756110AbYJZUTy (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:19:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753167AbYJZUTq (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:19:46 -0400 Received: from web56305.mail.re3.yahoo.com ([216.252.110.229]:36358 "HELO web56305.mail.re3.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754150AbYJZUTp (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:19:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=eJxA0EpO+YaaPO95lOtKh7RnRVv3p6sUL98p7F6Mm+kuHKwCKlaNtLmi5KvrRpOUzRkg9NxW/ZzUiGRtMPkIfzgGWFdPByvILgh/VidcCVqJ2KZHkLvxKp/CPgP2+plJh1K1Z87IMVaF78RsjyfQhYG0RzCf2sFur6rl5EVNDrQ=; X-YMail-OSG: JBi5HnkVM1lVFjOUf8DbsZLNPbWZ2jtQ2zYczO3E6luIjlsKqepJrvBrJyZHpyzKq0Iz3wQmOxSb4x_8RiKheDni5.9hPEJ8zu9dzFa0JYQDV41xtGRNkahUr8_MYNtPHZM0xmzj5h7FMLjVfF3GUObt4vpdQCx1snQM0l8- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.247.3 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:19:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul P Reply-To: ppak_98@yahoo.com Subject: Fw: Re: unexpected extra pollout events from epoll To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <521981.87335.qm@web56305.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 16 > I'm not too familiar with the edge triggered mode, but > you shouldn't be requesting EPOLLOUT notifications if you don't care > about them (i.e. if you are not trying to write anything). I am trying to write something, but I don't understand this behavior because it will screw up my notifications when I'm trying to see if I should write more because of the extra notifications. Even before I started writing anything, I'm getting these epollout events which I was not expecting. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/